Category: Business and Management

identify and discuss the micro environmental factors that affect Starbuck’s performance and decision making in South Africa.

Based on instruction and excel sheet attached below, please do only goal 5, and do not make any change on any other part. Only goal 5 is needed.

Part 1:  Examine a recent business periodical, and report briefly (first page – one or two paragraphs) on some lapse in integrity that is in the news.  Part 2: Then discuss if this type of problem could occur in a small business and how to prevent it from occurring (approx. 2-3 pages). A lapse of integrity could be something like Enron’s financial issues from years ago or perhaps the ethics violations of WorldCom or Hollinger International. If you google ethics failures, there will be plenty of ethics failures to choose from.   So if you were reading an article on the ethics failures of Enron, you would summarize the main issues in the first page and then discuss how this might happen in a small business and how a small business could put measures in place to prevent an ethics failure in the next 2 pages. 
Use APA style and a total page length of approx. 3-4 pages, not including title and reference page.    Reference your textbook and at least one additional scholarly source to demonstrate critical thinking.  
Your paper will be evaluated on how well the issues were addressed, how well terminology from the eText was used, and the writing style and organization.
Note that not following these directions will result in a grade of C or below.

Company Basics
Name: Amazon
Location: Seattle, Washington
Industry: Online retailer
Brief Overview: Amazon is an online retailer and web service provider offering a wide range of products, including apparel, electronics, beauty, health, and sports goods. It also provides support services like home delivery and shipping. Amazon also manufactures electric devices like kindle e-readers and fire-tablets, and allows authors, musicians, and filmmakers to publish and sell content.
Scarcity and Supply & Demand
How the company manages scarcity: they suggest that there’s only a small amount left by saying, “almost out of stock” or “limited availability”. This encourages customers to get the item before the product is gone.
Response to supply and demand fluctuations: they can accurately predict the demand and synchronizing production and inventory to mitigates the ripple effect of demand fluctuations through the supply chain. This technique helps the supply chain minimize excess inventory and stock outs.
Market Analysis
Target Market: They try to target millennials, urban dwellers, and value-conscious shoppers.  
Competition: Target Walmart, Best Buy, and Costco are their biggest competitors.
Market Trends: They have Generative A.I., ads on trucks/cars, and ads on billboards/online.
Business Plan
Mission: Amazons biggest mission is being earths most customer-centric company, best employer, and safest place to work.
Vision: For customers to find and discover anything they might need or want to buy online, and endeavors to offer its customers the lowest possible prices.
Goals: Their goals is to be powered by 100% renewable energy by 2025 and achieve net-zero carbon emissions across the entire business by 2040.
Leadership & Management
Leadership Style: Their leadership style is Pragmatist which sets high standards and unapologetically expect those standards to be the met by themselves and by their employees.
Key Figures and Roles: the top 5 officers of amazon are Jeffrey P. Bezos as the executive chair, Andy Jassy as the president and chief executive officer, Brian T. Olsavsky as senior vice president and chief financial officer, Douglas J. Herrington as Chief executive officer, worldwide amazon stores, and Shelly L. Reynolds’s as vice president, worldwide controller.
Career Readiness
Job Opportunities:
Training and Development:
Marketing
Marketing Strategies: Amazon uses a multitude of strategies to promote themselves like, ads on popular social medias, billboards, video marketing, sponsored brand ads, and email marketing.
Marketing Campaigns: They have 3 different types of marketing campaigns which include, sponsored product ads, sponsored brands, and product display ads.
Technology in Business
Use of Technology: they leverage data and machine learning to provide personalized product recommendations, enhancing the customers shopping experience.
Business Finances
Financial Performance: amazon reported earning results for the first quarter ended March 31st, 2024. For the 1st quarter, the company reported revenue was USD 143,313 million compared to USD 127,358 million a year ago. Their net income was USD 10,431 million compared to USD 3,172 million a year ago.
Stock over 5 years: The start of May 2019 a stock for amazon was $94.50, once covid started up it increased to $188.19, it stayed around $150 to $165 till it dropped severely in May of 2022, and it got down to $90.73 in 2023, its been slowly rising to one of its highest points going to $180 in 2024.
Business Structure
Description and Impact: Amazons organizational structure is predominantly hierarchical with a global hierarchy in place. At the top of the company’s hierarchy chart sits senior management team, which includes 3 CEOs and 3 senior vice presidents. The impact it has on Amazon is it has clear communication and accountability, focuses on specific target markets, has agile responses to market shifts, and it has a customer centric culture.
Global Presence
International Operations: Amazon operates in 20 countries with some of them being Canada, Brazil, Germany, Japan, Mexico, etc.

Prior to beginning work on this discussion forum
Review Chapters 18 and 19 of Macroeconomics Private and Public Choice.
Review Offshore Profit Shifting and Aggregate Measurement: Balance of Payments, Foreign Investment, Productivity, and the Labor ShareLinks to an external site..
In Chapter 9, you were introduced to the terms trade deficit and trade surplus. In Chapter 19, your view of imports and exports was expanded to include the balance of payments. As part of the balance of payments calculation, the trade deficit or trade surplus is called the balance on goods and services (Gwartney, et al., 2022, p. 389, exhibit 5, line 7). Business news reports commonly use the term, trade deficit, to discuss the U.S. economy, rather than your textbook’s preferred term, balance on goods and services. The trade deficit, or trade surplus, (Gwartney, et al., 2022, p. 389, exhibit 5, line 7) has the biggest impact on the current account.
Politicians often warn about problems associated with the U.S. trade deficit. For this discussion, cordially debate whether the U.S. should be concerned about the trade deficit.
For your initial post, first discuss how the balance of payments can influence exchange rates and purchasing power. Then take a position either for or against trade deficits. In your position, address the pros or cons of the U.S. trade deficits.
Your initial response should be a minimum of 200 words. Graduate school students learn to assess the perspectives of several scholars. Support your response with at least one scholarly and credible resource in addition to the text. Use the APA: Citing Within Your PaperLinks to an external site. and the APA: Formatting Your References ListLinks to an external site. resources from the UAGC Writing Center to appropriately cite and reference your sources.

In a business environment that stresses not only increased revenue, profit, and shareholders’ wealth, companies are now more fully cognizant of the importance of operating within an ethical framework. This can only be accomplished if there is an organizational culture that promotes ethical behavior and decision-making.
There have been reported cases of prominent companies that engaged in unethical practices, which have abused customer trust and damaged the company’s reputation. For this assignment, you will focus on unethical activities by Wells Fargo, Foxconn, Volkswagen, or Ferrero USA. If you prefer to investigate a different company, you can contact your professor for approval. Then, write a white paper addressing the following:
analyze the company decision-makers
examine the leader’s values
determine if a process is present
critique the organization based on your analysis
recommend a better approach to reduce ethical violations
Length: 3 to 4-page white paper

Sweet Treats Limited (STL) is a small regional chain of cake shops with its headquarters in Warwick. STL
was originally set up by Julie Bird. Its shares are now owned by family and friends of James Bird, the
current Managing Director. Five other directors manage the company with James.
Over a three year period STL has expanded by taking over independent cake and cookware shops in local
towns in the Midlands. STL now has 6 shops including the main shop in Warwick and is hoping to expand
to 10 shops.
As part of their ongoing expansion plans STL also wants to introduce an online ordering service using a
new online software package. This would offer a nationwide delivery service to customers’ homes. This
service would initially run from STL’s headquarters in Warwick but with plans to expand into a new
manufacturing unit.
The expansion through takeovers and the introduction of the online cake ordering service will result in
restructuring changes within STL.
These would include:
• the introduction of one regional manager based in the Warwick shop
• a reduction in the number of shop manager roles
• a reduction in the number of shop assistant roles
• an increase in the number of cake bakers as well as a unit manager (for new manufacturing unit)
• an increase in the number of delivery driver roles
• the introduction of an e-commerce team to manage the online business
Each of the other 5 shops now has one shop manager. However STL would like to introduce one regional
shop manager and have a cake baker in each store . The Warwick shop would continue to have a shop
manager. In the smaller shops, the baker will also act as the shop manager and manage any shop
assistants.
Module code
and title:
MG630 Change and
Organisational Development
Module leader: Dr Sisi Wang
Assignment
No. and type:
CW1: 2,000 Word Individual
Report
Assessment
weighting:
60%
Submission
time and date:
Sunday 9th June 2024 before 2
pm.
Target feedback
time and date:
3 weeks after submission
deadline.
2
The proposed restructuring is not popular with the current employees. They feel that the reasons for the
change, the need for the reorganisation of staff and the final staffing structure have been poorly
communicated to them.
James Bird and his two fellow directors thought that the letters sent to staff and the notices on the staff
notice boards in each shop clearly communicated the reasons for the reorganisation and the new structure
that was to be put in place.
However the restructuring process is causing uncertainty among staff. The staff have also experienced a
loss of motivation and a loss of trust in James Bird and his fellow directors. There is an increase in
voluntary staff turnover including the loss of managers. STL will also have additional costs associated with
the online business expansion which will include :
• recruitment of the e-commerce team and associated IT software
• training costs for bakers to become shop managers
• training costs for delivery driver roles.
A number of the staff in current job roles had originally been employed in the shops before the takeover by
STL. Some of these staff are not very flexible and are resistant to any change in their job roles.
James Bird is keen to continue to expand and develop the company and has recently refitted part of the
Warwick shop with a section selling partywear. This has proven to be a success and James now wants to
introduce similar sections into the other shops. This development will impact on current job roles and will
involve some restructuring.
James is aware of the problems associated with the planning change and restructuring and so he has
contracted your management consultancy to help with the planning of this change.

an essay about the conseptual frame work of capitalism,the stages of capitalism, the foundations and principals of the capitalist system and the criticisms and draw backs of the capitalist system 

Numerous changes occurred at the CEO level during the 2020-2022 fiscal seasons. With new leadership comes change opportunities and change challenges.
From the list below, pick two of the organizations with changes in leadership and research the possible changes that accompany this transition.
CEO Change Choices: Pick two
Disney – From Chapek to Iger
Ford – From Hackett to Farley
Amazon – From Bezos to Jassy
LinkedIn – From Weiner to Roslansky
MGM Resorts – From Murren to Hornbuckle
Harley Davidson – From Levatich to Zeitz
Walgreens Boots Alliance – Wasson to Brewer
For one of your selections, you may include a major company with a CEO change that has occurred within the past 12 months. The same analysis criteria must be used for your selection.
In your paper,
Provide a brief overview of the company using the Business Insights Global Tip Sheet FinalLinks to an external site..
Provide an overview of both the exiting leader and the new leader.
Describe the challenges of the organization and the changes needed.
Assess how the changes might impact customers, employees, and investors.
Selecting from Ackerman & Anderson’s roadmap for change, Cummings and Worley’s five dimensions of leading and managing change, or Kotter’s eight step approach, what change model would you recommend for the new leadership team and why?
You may select different models for the selected organizations.
This paper should be at a minimum of six pages of content, not including the title and reference pages. There should be one introduction and one summary for the entire paper. Each company should have a minimum of three pages of content. Support your work with the text and with at least four credible resources. One resource should be specific to the selected organization. Two additional resources should be research-oriented about the change model selected.
must be at least 6 double-spaced pages in length (not including title and references pages) and formatted according to APA StyleLinks to an external site. as outlined in the Writing Center’s APA Formatting for Microsoft WordLinks to an external site. resource.
must include a separate title page with the following in title case:
title of paper in bold font
Space should appear between the title and the rest of the information on the title page
student’s name
name of institution (The University of Arizona Global Campus)
course name and number
instructor’s name
due date
must utilize academic voice. Review the Academic VoiceLinks to an external site. resource for additional guidance.
must include an introduction and conclusion paragraph.
Your introduction paragraph needs to end with a clear thesis statement that indicates the purpose of your paper.
must use at least four scholarly resources in addition to the course text and the Gale Business: InsightsLinks to an external site. database in the UAGC library.
The Scholarly, Peer-Reviewed, and Other Credible SourcesLinks to an external site. table offers additional guidance on appropriate source types. If you have questions about whether a specific source is appropriate for this assignment, please contact your instructor. Your instructor has the final say about the appropriateness of a specific source.
To assist you in completing the research required for this assignment, review Quick and Easy Library ResearchLinks to an external site. tutorial, which introduces the University of Arizona Global Campus Library and the research process, and provides some library search tips.
must document any information used from sources in APA Style as outlined in the Writing Center’s APA: Citing Within Your PaperLinks to an external site. guide.
must include a separate references page that is formatted according to APA Style as outlined in the Writing Center. See the APA: Formatting Your References ListLinks to an external site. resource in the Writing Center for specifications.

please disregard the projecct analysis worksheet piece. 
only complete the 1-2 page potential risk analysis